Football is evolution. Right now offenses have realized that safeties are not atheltic enough to defend TEs and also have the range to defend seam stretching WRs at the same time.

So they have taken advantage of it. Defenses will counter with their own adustments. More athletes will be asked to play safety in college and players will be developed differently. It won't be the "you're too big and/or slow to play CB so we're playing you at safety" position that it currently is at the collegiate level as the stock of safeties continues to rise in the draft. More athletes will play it to get paid.

I was thinking that in a GM mock I did, so I tried it. All of my safeties were garbage, so I released them. I made sure I had a front 7 that played the run really well, and just signed some extra corners who were around league- average.

I figured I'd just have a 4-3 base with a defensive backfield of 4 corners: 2 really good and 2 average.

Wish I had some way of knowing whether it would work. The defense looked vicious on paper, though.

What is the word on his neck injury? If he can play, and his medical would check out, I wouldn't mind the Eagles looking itno bringing him in for competition. They have done similar things like this before, and it didn't work out, so they may shy away from him, regardless if he's healthy or not, but what's the word on him and his injury?

We don't really know anything other beyond the fact that he's not a Packer, and he's seen A LOT of Doctors. The rumor is that none of them have cleared him. The Packers weren't comfortable letting him back on the field, and they're hoping he retires. Rumor has it that he'll have a job within the organization if he retires, which is how the Packers usually handle these situations. The key word in all of this is "rumor." When it comes to Packer rumors and "insider sources," you have to keep in mind that these are the same guys who hired god damned Ari Fleischer as a spin consultant.

Other players have come back from similar injuries and operations, so I think it's possible. I'm sure that a lot of teams will check him out, and they should. This reminds me a lot of the Sterling Sharpe situation, though. The Packers knew Sterling was done, but he still wanted to play, so they cut him. Sharpe had a few workouts and physicals with teams, but he never played again and he was working for ESPN the next season.

Meanwhile, in hockey the other night, the Washington Capitals' Eric Belanger gets hit with a stick, loses EIGHT teeth, has an instant root canal in the locker room, comes back out and PLAYS and never says boo.

So new rule, NBA: Unless you have a root canal at halftime, SHUT UP AND PLAY!

I don't hate zone. I just prefer press man. But it depends on the players on your team.

I hate zone coverage on my team bc my team is built to play press man. I'd hate man coverage with the Falcons bc you're built to play zone.

Make sense? I believe you let the players dictate the scheme, not the other way around.

Now if I'm building a team from scratch, I want press man CBs. That's my preference. But I don't make it a law saying every team should play it. Play to your strengths.

Now I do feel that zone is somewhat worse in general bc I feel that elite qbs will always find the hole in the zones, but if you don't have man corners, don't play man. Zone can still be effective if you have a dominant pass rush up front that can lead to turnovers from zone coverage behind it.

Just saw this now. I agree on everything, I was simply teasing you about all that anti-cover 2 stuff you throw out at BF51.

The Bills cut Drayton Florence, who was our #1 corner for most of last year after re-signing with us. He was pretty brutal, but we've seen him alternate good and bad seasons before. If he can latch on somewhere in a smaller role, he could probably still be serviceable.

This makes us really young at corner. McGee restructured to stick around, but his health can not be counted on. Could bode well for McKelvin, even if he's just competing with Justin Rogers and Ron Brooks for a 3-4 spot. Certainly wouldn't mind having him around for returns. Looks like we'll be throwing a couple of 90s-born corners right into the fire as our starters.